Abstract. In 1992, Móricz, Schipp and Wade proved the a.e. convergence of the double (C, 1) means of the Walsh-Fourier series σnf → f (min(n 1 , n 2 ) → ∞, n = (n 1 , n 2 ) ∈ N 2 ) for functions in Llog + L(I 2 ) (I 2 is the unit square). This paper aims to demonstrate the sharpness of this result. Namely, we prove that for all measurable function δ : [0, +∞) → [0, +∞), limt→∞ δ(t) = 0 we have a function f such as f ∈ Llog + Lδ(L) and σnf does not converge to f a.e. (in the Pringsheim sense).